According to the Release Notes, it's all minor fixes. But there seem to be lots of changes in the source code. And it works better for me (I had occasional problems with the v12 that it lost networks after disconnect-reconnect, the newer version seems to work fine.)

Thank you very much! But ... hmmm ... it doesn't seem to pick up the wireless hardware on my N130. Anything I can do to help you solve this? Step-by-step instructions have best chance of success!CheersRoger

dmesg shows a CPUcheck_firmware_ready error which tends to suggest the error is with the firmware. However, if I stop ifup running at boot time and then run in manually with strace I see that the failure comes up as a SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted error (see man NETDEVICE(7) for information about this ioctl). This suggests to me that it could be a problem with ifup/ifconfig wrongly trying to set the flags, a problem with the firmware or a problem with the kernel.

I just bought a Samsung R780 and found this site very helpful, but the wireless wasn't working (on Kubuntu 10.10 64-bit). It has a R8192E wireless card. I emailed Realtek support who sent me the source code for a new version of the driver within 12 hours, and it works! This is version 0015.1013.2010. Thought I'd give a 'heads-up' here in case you wanted to update the package. The file is too big to attach but I can send it by email.

Thanks to fatgerman for sending me a copy of this driver package (as he wrote, Realtek will also send you the package). Indeed, it works on my N220.

This is an out of kernel driver, so before installing it I removed my kernel driver. In my case that meant setting# CONFIG_RTL8192E is not setin my kernel .config file and compiling a new kernel. For people who use stock kernels and modules I presume they would need to blacklist this module. I would suggest rebooting before installing the new driver. Slightly expanding the instructions, this is what I did:

Save the rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0015.1013.2010.tar.gz file to a user folder (I have a Downloads/Realtek folder). Extract it (I used archive manager/File roller) and you should get a subfolder rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0015.1013.2010 in the same folder.

Open a root terminalcd into the rtl8192e_linux_2.6.0015.1013.2010 directory(Or if you use a user terminal cd as above and thensudo su)makemake install(In my case this step failed complaining that directory /lib/modules/2.6.32-<ver>/kernel/drivers/net/wireless was missing so I didmkdir /lib/modules/2.6.32-<ver>/kernel/drivers/netmkdir /lib/modules/2.6.32-<ver>/kernel/drivers/net/wirelessmake install)reboot (power off and reboot, just restarting/rebooting left me with "unable to enumerate usb" problems)

After which I was able to bring wlan0 up manually, I reinstalled network-manager-gnome and everything is working fine.

turbolad, I am not sure what you mean by "update install". If you mean available through your Linux distribution (e.g. with Debian using aptitude) then it is not going to be available for a while yet.

The firmware, which is available as a Debian package, is irrelevant. All the versions of the firmware seem to be identical anyway.

It is the kernel drivers, which are currently staging drivers, that are not working. To get these drivers available through your distribution requires them to be updated in the kernel. There is a bug:https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16594that is about getting this done. You (and others) could try contacting the kernel developers and Realtek to encourage them to get on with this. Ideally we need Realtek to contribute to getting proper (not staging) Linux drivers for their hardware.

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